Cathy Perkins's Blog, page 175
February 26, 2012
I Wouldn't Do That to MY Mother"
"I Wouldn't Have Done That To My Mother?"
I was at dinner with friends a few nights ago and we got to talking about our mothers. We're all of a certain age making our mothers elderly or deceased. The story that tickled me and got me to thinking was my writer friend Janice talking about a trip her family made to Disneyworld in Orlando, Florida some 30 years ago.
It's an annual trip with her family that started with her graduation from college. On this trip 22 year-old Janice...
February 23, 2012
Lizbeth Selvig, the Rancher, the Rockstar, and a Songbird
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Lizbeth Selvig featuring mouse ears
Hello, Musers! Even though Lizbeth is one of our regular bloggers, I still wanted to feature her and her debut release (February 28th!). Lizbeth was my Golden Heart sister in 2010 and WON our category with Songbird, who-hoo (Did I mention the conference was in Orlando?)! Then she hit the road to publication and Songbird turned into The Rancher and the Rock Star. I've enjoyed watching her journey and now she'll share it with you.
I'll start...
February 22, 2012
The Art of Saving an Institution
Library funding comes up every year and as always their value is vastly underrated. How many people would go to the lengths this person did to benefit the needs of Scottish libraries?
Dragon nesting in the egg
"One day in March, staff at the Scottish Poetry Library came across a wonderful creation, left anonymously on a table in the library. Carved from paper, mounted on a book and with a tag addressed to @byleaveswelive – the library's Twitter account – reading: It started...
Time to Get my Geek On
So…time to let the freak flag fan fly. I assume most who read this blog are romance lovers. Well, I've been in love with fantasy as long as I can remember. Growing up in a very small town, I can assure you I was the only girl to have STARLOG magazine delivered to her home…it made me squee like a normal girl does for new shoes.
AND as a teen, not many were loving on Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde or presently thinking Tim Burton is quite possibly the personification of COOL. I have...
February 21, 2012
Tuesday at the Theatre – A Requiem for Downton
This week I'm in mourning. Drapes pulled closed. Knocker muffled. A dress of stiff black bombazine. You see, this past Sunday the last episode of the second season of Downton Abbey aired on PBS, and I'm utterly bereft. No more hobnobbing with the Earl of Grantham and his family. No more peeking belowstairs where the butler Mr. Carson steers a taut ship. No more longing looks, tension-filled intrigue, or, let's face it, what we all lived for—the dry, perfectly uttered wit of...
February 20, 2012
Unexpected Beauty by Grace Burrowes
Facebook is an expected part of a published author's branding repertoire, so of course, you can "find me" on Facebook, or some facsimile of me named Grace Burrowes. The other day I saw a piece about an experiment run at a Washington DC metro station, as follows:
A fellow gets out his violin, and spends 45 minutes playing a selection of Bach pieces for the rush hour crowds. Estimates are 1100 people heard him, twenty put a few bucks in his case, maybe a half dozen stopped to...
February 16, 2012
Joan Swan – What I Learned Writing Fever
Our Friday guest blogger today is Joan Swan. Joan is a triple RWA® Golden Heart finalist and writes sexy romantic suspense with a paranormal twist. Her debut novel with Kensington Brava, FEVER, releases February 28, 2012. Her second novel, BLAZE, follows in October, 2012. In her day job, she works as a sonographer for one of the top ten medical facilities in the nation. She lives on the California central coast in beautiful wine country with her husband and two...
